From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:53:18 +0100

Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/sn/ioc3.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/sn/ioc3.c b/drivers/sn/ioc3.c
index 2e6e0514d8f7..1cacc6178e6f 100644
--- a/drivers/sn/ioc3.c
+++ b/drivers/sn/ioc3.c
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ static int ioc3_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct 
pci_device_id *pci_id)
 #endif
 
        /* Set up per-IOC3 data */
-       idd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ioc3_driver_data), GFP_KERNEL);
+       idd = kzalloc(sizeof(*idd), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!idd) {
                ret = -ENODEV;
                goto out_idd;
-- 
2.15.1

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